My justification for stating that is that we're seeing people come back to Bluesky whereas people would try to create an account on a Mastodon service, their first post would be confusion and terror, and they'd leave after a few days of trying.
There are daily users of Mastodon (myself being one), it's just that the range of people is much smaller than Bluesky and Twitter due to the comparatively higher barrier of entry.
I think that the clear preference people have for Bluesky over the Fediverse shows that maybe it's as decentralised as people as willing to accept.
Fedi is an amazing piece of software but so too people were/are bouncing off of it. I'm not one that shared the same frustration but it was very clearly a problem for many people.
Bluesky doesn't have that issue and has been easy for people to migrate to. At the end of the day, we can't let good be the enemy of perfect.
That'd be a convincing argument if the internet wasn't brainwashing a significant portion of adults into believing weird things about the political elite, vaccines, 5G, etc.
Given the amount of people blindly trusting the output, I think that a case could be made that guardrails are a necessity for LLMs.
The example in the article is medical diagnostics. Could you imagine if it started hallucinating and someone went with whatever insane advice it gave? Remember Google AI suggesting glue to keep cheese on pizza?
We recently soft launched the new https://feetr.io website as well as our stock market AI, and are knocking our pan in to fix the little bugs that have been uncovered in addition to migrating more of our existing code to the new system.
Over the weekend, we trialled the AI on Reddit[0] and got 300 comments more than expected, so we're doing the above while there are a lot more eyeballs on us.
I am, however, continually surprised that SLY doesn’t have more mindshare. Similarly jonathan. I guess cl-json and SLIME are _good enough_ for most people.
"I agree in that IH is not a Ponzi scheme however it is a really big marketing channel for a lot of people and that means that this place is not full of advice so much as it is advertisements. And I think that is some peoples main complaint. I came here with the idea that this was creators giving advice and sharing experiences but the more I'm here the less I believe that to be the case.
I could be really mean and say something like "people who can't do, teach" but I don't know that I believe that. I think it's people starting companies, hitting road blocks and then trying to monetize their solution to those road blocks. Or people who want to be their own boss but then not having a clear idea for a business, so they try to solve the problems that they're seeing here. I don't know. Could be any of the above or a million different other reasons. End result is the same. And none of them are bad, I should clarify.
I think I may come across as more negative than I actually am. I think it's fine for people to come here and try to advertise their businesses. It's a good place to get initial feedback from people who (hopefully) have experience going from 0 to 1. And it certainly helped me get off the ground with my company, and the response here gave me a massive confidence boost as this was the first place I told about it.
It's just that when you aren't a beginner any more, when you've actually started, this place becomes a bit less relevant and that's a shame."
We've been experimenting with LLMs to create price predictions and stock analysis for day trading, and I really haven't been impressed with Bard at all. People in the comments are comparing it to gpt-3.5 and, for our use at least, I wouldn't say it's even remotely close. It's a very clear win for OpenAI.
It's not just that the accuracy of the predictions is wrong, it's that the analysis itself is just not in any way usable. We explicitly describe what the response should look like but Bard will do its own thing.
Here is an example of ChatGPT for RIVN:
"Rivian Automotive (RIVN) has shown a strong upward momentum in recent discussions, with the latest figure reaching 105.51. The stock's current price is $25.62, with a significant increase in volume to 1.41M from its 65-day average of 38.68M. The stock has been trading above its 10-day SMA ($22.08), 20-day SMA ($18.28), and 50-day SMA ($15.68), indicating a bullish trend. The RSI values are above 80, suggesting the stock is currently overbought. Considering the positive market sentiment towards tech stocks and Amazon's record sales during its Prime Day event, which could indirectly benefit Rivian as Amazon is a major stakeholder, an entry price around $25.70 seems plausible. The first price target could be set at $26.20, followed by a second target at $26.70. Confidence level: 75%."
Here is Bard with the same prompt:
"Analysis:
Based on the data you have provided, I believe that the stock RIVN is likely to continue to rise in the near future. The current price is slightly below the 20 day SMA, which suggests that the stock is undervalued. Additionally, the momentum data is positive, which indicates that there is strong buying pressure. The latest market news is also positive, as it suggests that the overall market is bullish.
However, it is important to note that there are some risks to consider. The stock is still highly volatile, and it could experience a pullback in the near future. Additionally,"
Yes, it does end after a comma. That's not me trying to make it look bad.
The old joke about lisp ruining all other languages holds true (at least in my experience), so it's a monkeys paw wish of yes, you get to work with lisp but you'll never be able to enjoy another job again.
Yeah, we use CCL for local development and SBCL for running code on servers. I hear that the development story is better with CCL due to improved error messages but I'm not sure how much I agree with that, however we continue the practice because it ensures that we're writing portable code and aren't tied to a single implementation.
Guix is in a really good place right now and I'd have no reservations recommending it. Of course, there is the initial onboarding experience which can be tough if it's a completely new concept but overcoming that is 100% worth it IMO.
> the worse is linux images running on production VMs which are partially specified
I could absolutely see that being worse in a really big and scary way. Lisp is great because if you try to call a function which doesn't exist, it'll scream bloody murder at you, so we got lucky that it was immediately picked up. But that's lisp for you, incredibly nice and easy to use.
Doesn’t federate either, and they’ve violated the license, but core concept is there to be copied.